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RUBEN ZERTUOI-IE, OF SALTILLO, MEXICO.

ANCHOR F'oR VESSELS.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 513,855, dated January 30, 1894.

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To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUBEN ZERTUOHE, of Saltillo, Mexico, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Anchors for Vessels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improved anchor for vessels, and has for its object to provide an anchor especially adapted for vessels of the flat-bottomed type, which when attached to a vessel and thrown overboard will sink and stand in more or less of a horizontal position, the column of Water bearing upon said anchor serving to maintain the vessel with which the anchor is connected in a steady position.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claim. H

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a barge having the anchor attached thereto; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the anchor.

The anchor consists of a plate A of any suitable dimension and of any approved shape in general contour. Preferably however the plate is made somewhat rectangular, and one of its ends is provided with an extension A. The plate is preferably made of sheet metal, but it may be constructed of forged or of cast metal, and may be given any weight that in practice may be found desirable.

In connection with the anchor a main cable B, is empl0yed,which is adapted to be attached in any suitable or approved manner to one side of the boat 0, which may be of any description; and a single anchor may be used in connection with the boat, or two may be employed,preferably the latter, in which event one anchor is located at each side of the boat.

The main cable B, is provided at its lower end with five strands, designated as 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14:, which strands are of any desired length; one of the strands is made to connect with the upper surface of the plate near each corner, while the other strand is made to engage with the central portion of the plate, and

said central strand 14, may be a continuation of the main cable B. Thus, for example, eyes 15, are located one near each corner of the plate and one at the center, and the strand 10 is connected with one corner eye, the strand 11 with another corner eye and the strands 12 and 13 with eyes at opposite corners, while the strand lei, is connected with the eye located at the center of the body of the anchor.

At the end of the extension A of the body or plate of the anchor an eye 16, is located, or the equivalent thereof, and one end of a cable 17, is fastened or attached in any suitable or approved manner to the end eye section 16 of the plate or body of the anchor, and this cable is adapted to extend upward also to the side of the vessel. Thus, for example, as shown in Fig. 1,when it is desired to hold the vessel steady the anchor is thrown overboard and is suffered to sink, the plate or body standing in a horizontal position, the depth to which the body or plate will attain being regulated by the length of the main cable B. By this means a volume of water has direct and perpendicular bearing upon the upper face of the body or plate of the anchor and the cable draws equally upon the entire surface of the said anchor body, thereby insuring the craft being held in a steady position when such an anchor is located one at each side, without the anchor being of such weight as to be unwieldy and without necessitating the anchor touching the ground or the bottom of the body of water. When the anchor is to be drawn upward,the cable 17, is brought into requisition and upward tension is exerted upon it, whereupon, as is also shown in Fig. 1, the anchor body through the medium of the tension exerted upon the cable 17, will be brought to a perpendicular position, that is. to say, what were formerly the upper and lower faces will be the side faces, and when the anchor is in this position it may be readily drawn upward, meeting with but little resistance from the water, and may be conveniently taken aboard.

This anchor isexceedingly simple, durable and'economic in its construction, and is adapted for keeping the heads of vessels to the wind and preventing them from drifting to leeward when in deep water.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters nected with the said integral extension, sub- Patent stantially as set forth. The herein described anchor consisting in a. single fiat metal plate A, formed at one end RUBEN ZERTUCHE' Witnesses:

A. M. MOLINA, (J. SEDGWICK.

5 with an integral extension A, the cable B having a series of branches connected with the plate as shown and another cable con- 

